Student Success Statement

“Cowardice asks the question ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question ‘Is it popular?’

But, conscience, asks the question ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells on that it is right.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

  

 We are focusing on things that we shouldn’t be focusing on. We pay attention to petty things. We merely scratch the surface with foolish questions. The in depth analysis has been compromised by image.  Taking chances and going out of our comfort zone pulls us into the realm of adventure. Being different is a risk one should be willing to take.  We must fight against this repression but forth upon us by society. We can fight against the puppetry we are being forced to experience. We only live once and that cannot be wasted scratching the surface. Our struggles should be worth it. What someone else believes fills all other requisites might the morally wrong. How used are we to this that we don’t even pay attention to the morality of it all? What we know to be right may not fill all or any of those requisites but that does not take away from its righteousness.  We need to choose the right whether its popular, safe, politic, or not.